Ronit Freeman, a physical sciences researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has successfully manipulated peptides and repurposed genetic material to create synthetic cells that operate like living ones for the first time. Daly et. al/UNC-Chapel Hill An example of the cytoskeleton of an artificial cell created using programmable peptide-DNA technology.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have engineered artificial cells to act like live cells using DNA-peptide technology. Read More...
The film was a critical flop for director Danny Boyle and star Leonardo DiCaprio, but while both have moved on, the damage done to Thailand's Maya Bay has been lasting.Mikel Bilbao/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesTourists in Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh island in southern Thailand.
Over two decades after the release of 20th Century Fox’s The Beach, a Thai court has ordered that the once-idyllic Maya Bay on southern Thailand’s Phi Phi Leh island should be rehabilitated — and the film studio will have to chip in for it. Read More...
Chemical weapons have given people nightmares for the past 100 years — those who are lucky enough to survive them, that is.
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Chemical weapons hold an especially dark place in the history of warfare. Bullets, bombs, and landmines all have their own terrors, but there’s nothing quite like an invisible cloud of death to spread panic and disrupt soldiers’ discipline. In a serious chemical attack, the air itself becomes hostile to life, and unseen poison seeps through every gap and crack to silently kill unprotected people. Read More...
